I stopped 2 kids from doing this in my neighborhood a couple of years ago, they looked like they were 8 and 12, and already had 3 foot flames from one low platform. I stomped out the flames, the older kid actually tried to get violent with me, and I walked home to report them to the cops. Dopy kids were still there and got caught, and I walked over to ID them.

Bah! It's a media cover-up! Lynnishia is the child of a government official, so her part in this is being concealed. The real news article was pulled, and replaced by this dreck.

Luckily, the Smoke organization has access to the original article, which you were never meant to see. I will now reproduce the authentic quote, right from the original article.

"Someone... someone... put fires on it," said 6-year-old Lynnishia Larson. "I don't know who... He talks to me, in my head... Someone keeps telling me that he'll burn me next, if I don't do what he says... Someone hated the playground... He wanted it burned. Someone couldn't do it himself, so I... so I..."

At this point, Lynnishia trailed off. Any further attempts at speaking to her were met with harsh, accusing stares from her personal bodyguard.

Emotional drivel is the single most widely used smoke-screen the government deploys when pulling a news article. Emotional human interest stories are a dime a dozen; no one ever notices if there are too many, or not enough, and no one is surprised to see one taking up space.

So if you're cutting something out of the news, what better way to replace it? Or, if you want to downplay an event, what better way than to morph it into something people will ignore!?

Luckily, the secret Smoke organization is ready and able to see past the mirrors.

Someone set fire to my school playground when I was in elementary school. We just went and played somewhere else until it was replaced. We knew what arson was, our parents weren't afraid to tell us the truth. Heck, chances are it was one of the younger kids who did it.

/poorest school in the district.//social services car parked in front every week.///kids kicking the principal in the crotch and setting off stinkbombs in a portable classroom was common.////most slashes I've ever used, ever.

Come on - now the kids have no where to play?If you have even a sliver of pavement, get some spraypaint and you've got four-square, dodgeball, red rover, kickball, etc. And that green stuff is called grass...Kids have creativity - just because they don't have manmade equipment to play on doesn't mean the parents and teachers can't show these kids how to make something positive outta negative.On my elem. playground we had a huge concrete tube we used to sit in and climb on. That thing was fun!

Farkulous: small ones are stupid these days. This one kid I know/despise decided to attack me with plastic knives (they actually make you bleed, come to find out) and was shocked when I told him to either give me the knives or I'd take them by force and have his parents take him home.